Example sentences of "be a very [adj] time " in BNC.

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31 This is a very exciting time for me .
32 This is a very painful time for me and , I 'm sure , for Tatum as well . ’
33 ‘ This is a very positive time for all the partners in these licences , ’ says Ritson .
34 The burst problem is , of course , particularly acute for brands using TV , where three weeks of national advertising at 100 TVRs per week can cost £600000 , and three weeks is a very short time .
35 That is a very short time , especially when you have to travel all that way . ’
36 Holmes from Oxford Homes Relate , the old Marriage Guidance Council , says a year is a very short time , she says couples may be confused by the natural progression from the state of being in love to something less emotionally exciting .
37 But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period
38 Christmas is a very social time and we 've tried to make this a social newsletter .
39 It is a very busy time .
40 ‘ The Chariot will be here at dawn , good Calatin , ’ said Fael-Inis , and Calatin at once said that this was a very good time for a journey .
41 He then had a number of convulsions , and it was a very worrying time for us all .
42 This was a very trying time for me , and the people who ought to be offering support were offering only insults .
43 ‘ It was a very sad time , ’ he says .
44 Gillian 's Uncle George was a very long time coming .
45 The people in his past had been real once but , although that was a very long time ago , he had never been able to forget them or what they had done to his life .
46 And then , with an abrupt gesture , ‘ But it was a very long time ago , and I do not know the details , for I was never told .
47 The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward .
48 It was a very distressing time for him .
49 And then the the men cut the like that and then the women s they lifted the , and the next lad he stuck them so that it was a very busy time .
50 ‘ It was a very difficult time for us and I 'm fortunate that I have such an understanding wife .
51 We never sold anything of course but it gave me a sort of status plus it was a very interesting time to be around the art world .
52 It was a very different time .
53 This was a very tense time and to my complete amazement I took 2nd place in the amateur class .
54 It was a very exciting time and we ( my then husband , Adrian , and I ) followed my parents to Cornwall .
55 It was a very inconvenient time for murder .
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